Thus Winckelmann’s project, which offered an ambitious survey of cultural history, found an eager audience in international circles comprised of Enlightenment intellectuals and cosmopolitan elites ...
Continue Reading →A pioneering work in the movement to free art from its traditional bonds to material reality, this book is one of the most ...
Continue Reading →Schopenhauer’s account of the artistic process is an early contribution to the study of creativity. This account extends his analysis of art beyond ...
Continue Reading →Born in Scotland, James Fergusson (1808–86) spent ten years as an indigo planter in India before embarking upon a second career as an ...
Continue Reading →En 1946, un professeur de philosophie de l’université de Gand jetait les bases de ce qu’on appellera plus tard l’histoire des sensibilités esthétiques. ...
Continue Reading →What is beauty, and what is truth? These are some of the questions which aesthetics tries to answer. In our everyday life, we ...
Continue Reading →When we look at the view while out walking, or when protestors against wind farms criticise them for damaging the ‘landscape’, or when ...
Continue Reading →Philosophers working on aesthetics have paid considerable attention to art and artists of the early modern period. Yet early modern artistic practices scarcely ...
Continue Reading →This is the first comprehensive collection of texts on the conservation of art and architecture to be published in the English language. Designed ...
Continue Reading →Architectural Theory: Vitruvius to 1870 is a landmark anthology that surveys the development of the field of architecture from its earliest days to ...
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